Julian Assange. Photo courtesy of Cancilleria del Ecuador via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.flickr.com/photos/dgcomsoc/14953880621/
Slow-motion assassination of Julian Assange
The slow-motion state-sponsored assassination of Julian Assange, the award-winning Australian journalist who helped expose, through his outlet Wikileaks, some of the ugly truth about the powers that run the western world, appears to be gathering pace. Ever since he was charged by Sweden on conveniently timed rape charges (just as conveniently dropped once he was securely trapped in the UK), Assange has been more or less a dead man standing. With the entire security establishment of the United States baying for his blood, no country’s government has been willing to risk defending him. Not Sweden, where…